Fighting against racism and fascism
Peter Marriner, who has died at the age of 77, is one of those extraordinary people, true heroes of the anti-fascist movement, to whom we owe an enormous debt of gratitude for their courage and self-sacrifice. But the story of…
The last ever printed edition of Searchlight magazine is out now and selling fast. It is a 72-page bumper edition charting the 50-year life of Searchlight and it won't be available for long...
When this article was first published in 2024, we were not able to identify Peter Marriner as the Searchlight informant…
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has won control of at least seven councils in this week’s local elections. A party that…
Some personal thoughts on two successful anti-fascist actions last weekend, and what they can teach us. The past weekend was…
Today, on the anniversary of nazi David Copeland’s third and most deadly nail bomb attack on London in 1999, we…
The recent crossbow attack in Leeds has attracted national attention not only because of its shocking nature but also because…
Last weekend’s Homeland Party Remigration Conference was predictable in many ways. The party of ‘sensible nationalism’ ordered its (male) troops…
Conor McGregor’s recent announcement that he plans to run for the Irish presidency has come as no surprise to those paying attention to his outbursts over the last few years. Having become increasingly vocal about what he sees as Ireland’s…
Some British Movement members celebrating Hitler’s birthday obviously thought they were being smart when they posted pixilated photos of themselves…
Ashley Baxter, the Leader of South Kesteven District Council released the following statement yesterday announcing an enquiry into how council…
Deranged and disorganised. The best way to describe today’s illuminating get together in Manchester of racists, cranks, criminals, and conspiracy…
When the Home Secretary banned the French racist Renaud Camus from travelling to the UK to speak at tomorrow’s conference…
Leonard – he was always Lenny to me – Zeskind left a positive impression on all who knew him. He…
William Joyce. Nazi. Jew-hater. Traitor. Loathed, tried and hanged after the war for his services to Hitler. Loved, remembered, and…
Mark Cotterill, editor of Britain’s self-styled ‘intellectual’ nazi magazine Heritage and Destiny, is plainly enjoying playing mein host to social…
Conor McGregor’s recent announcement that he plans to run for the Irish presidency has come as no surprise to those…
Leonard – he was always Lenny to me – Zeskind left a positive impression on all who knew him. He…
A Spanish neo-nazi who caused a public row three years ago when she was allowed into the UK to address…
Earlier this week, the media reported that the Charity Commission had shut down an ostensibly Roman Catholic-supporting charity, sacked its…
Failed BNP führer and twice-bankrupted Nick Griffin chose Easter Sunday to launch his latest political party. That might seem strange timing. England is just ten days away from county council elections, when real political parties are competing at the ballot…
The great Homeland Party split (reported by Searchlight as it unfolded during the Easter weekend) has hardened within the past…
Steve Laws, one of the leading and most high-profile members of the Homeland Party, has resigned from the party in…
Following our report yesterday, Homeland Party leader Kenny Smith’s Easter has got even worse. On Thursday night Smith lost his…
Sadly, we have to report that the Woodlander Initiative, the neo-Nazi land buying scheme which looked like it might be…
It’s going to be a long Good Friday for Kenny Smith, leader of what he calls the “sensible nationalist” Homeland…
Yesterday, Searchlight heard the dreadful news that Lenny Zeskind had died. Lenny was one of our closest and dearest friends,…
A neo-nazi scheme which raised thousands of pounds to buy land all over the UK to establish white enclaves seems…
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has won control of at least seven councils in this week’s local elections. A party that…
This short, highly readable book explores the growing influence of what Bloomfield and Edgar describe as the ‘populist right’. This…
You probably don’t notice or think about it a lot of the time, but one of us may well be…
”We came a close second. The Conservatives got 1,304 votes. We got 977. Nearly a thousand votes in 4 weeks.…
“Every metric at UKIP is being smashed. New members are joining in healthy amounts, our candidates list is steadily growing, investment is being sought at every opportunity, and our support base is not only growing but pro-actively asking how they…
UKIP Chairman Ben ‘Rogue Builder’ Walker appears to be in a strange and inexplicable state of denial about his criminal…
One man who will be hoping desperately that Tommy Robinson wins his appeal against sentence and gets out of jail…
A Spanish neo-nazi who caused a public row three years ago when she was allowed into the UK to address…
Earlier this week, the media reported that the Charity Commission had shut down an ostensibly Roman Catholic-supporting charity, sacked its…
A great night at the Jazz Café, Camden, on 7 April when we were transported back to the Jim Crow…
As Britain First’s 17 May Birmingham demo approaches, co-leader Paul Golding is getting increasingly desperate. His bizarre antics over recent…
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the murder of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the final days of the Second World war.…
A great night at the Jazz Café, Camden, on 7 April when we were transported back to the Jim Crow…
One song and two singers came to represent opposition and resistance to Hitler in the Second World War. The most beautiful…
The red triangle was in the news recently when the city of Berlin senate banned its use on activities related…
The Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a play that arose from events in December 1969, when Italian fascists bombed…
A huge victory! A stunning success! Total vindication of our strategy! Yes! Set up by ageing nazis whose political careers have been characterised by hideous extremism, bigotry, Holocaust denial, conspiracy-mongering and a good deal more, the BNP Retirement Division, otherwise…
Britain’s fastest growing far-right party Homeland, led by an ex-BNP organiser with a swastika tattoo on his chest but now…
Hostilities between groups on Britain’s extreme right have taken a bizarre turn with Paul Golding, leader of Britain First, launching…
The leader of the French far-right party National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, has been sentenced to four years in…
The fascist British Democrats have announced they will be contesting Doncaster’s mayoral election in May. Their candidate will be Frank…
Nigel Farage arrived on the stage of the Reform UK rally in the Arena Birmingham on a JCB accompanied by…
Last Monday was David Irving’s birthday. He celebrated it from his sickbed to which he has been confined for over…
UKIP Leader Nick Tenconi is becoming increasingly deranged. The man with the megaphone, making a nuisance of himself in town…
When this article was first published in 2024, we were not able to identify Peter Marriner as the Searchlight informant…
Some personal thoughts on two successful anti-fascist actions last weekend, and what they can teach us. The past weekend was…
Leonard – he was always Lenny to me – Zeskind left a positive impression on all who knew him. He…
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the murder of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the final days of the Second World war.…
Patriotic Alternative, the neo-fascist political entity that has housed and harboured many a convicted criminal, is in trouble and leader Mark Collett has launched a desperate smear attack on one of his leading rivals accusing him of being a state…
We still don’t know how many (if any) far right candidates will compete with Reform UK at the Runcorn &…
Or, how a ‘Tommy Robinson’ whip-round divvy-up has fired up a right wing Lynch mob. Can you remember when, before…
Patriotic Alternative, one of Britain’s most overt nazi organisations, has secretly registered as a political party with the Electoral Commission…
Sitting in a pub with a beer in front of him, UKIP Leader Nick ‘The Kick’ Tenconi makes an offer…
Searchlight the printed magazine is bowing out after half a century in continuous publication. It was launched with a February…
In early 1975 two antifascist activists published a small magazine. It was 20 pages long, black and white, and most…
With the publication of the final print edition of Searchlight, the magazine’s founder and often-times editor, Gerry Gable, has announced…
Last Monday was David Irving’s birthday. He celebrated it from his sickbed to which he has been confined for over…
Last week’s funeral of the far-right, schismatic Bishop Richard Williamson brought into sharp focus the longstanding connections between some ultra-conservative…
Searchlight has been reporting for several months on the increasing radicalisation of right-wing parties. Not just the obviously racist and…
To mark the anniversary of the 1938 November Pogrom, otherwise known as Kristallnacht, we reprint a special article published by…
Last week’s funeral of the far-right, schismatic Bishop Richard Williamson brought into sharp focus the longstanding connections between some ultra-conservative Catholics and a world of antisemitic bigotry, Holocaust denial and fascist politics. Williamson died last month aged 84, a few…
The Anglican Catholic Church in Michigan, which withdrew Calvin Robinson’s licence to minster in January, has accused the far-right clergyman…
This short, highly readable book explores the growing influence of what Bloomfield and Edgar describe as the ‘populist right’. This…
It would be remiss of us not to report the latest outing for one of the oldest Jew-haters in town,…
Britain’s fascists are tearing into each other with accusations of selling out and betrayal, and big problems are looming ahead…
A thousand flags. £10,000 on PA system, staging and a dozen portaloos. Much boasting. Claims that hundreds would be attending.…
Members of the North-West branch of British Movement must have thought they were being rather clever. Just before Xmas they…
Reports of planned march and rally organised by the fascists of UKIP were doing the rounds for several weeks. Those…